Spoon Bump Up New Album Release Date, Announce First Single

Stop. Be quiet. Listen closely. That sound you hear? It's music critics everywhere sighing with relief. Spoon have moved up the release of their new album Transference, but they haven't moved it up so far that we'll all have to rework our year-end lists. And thank god. Do you know how hard we work on those things?

Originally due the last week of January, Transference will now arrive January 19 in North America (via Merge) and a day earlier in Europe (via Anti-).

Spoon have also announced the first single from Transference.

"Written in Reverse" is due for a December 1 digital release and a January 5 release as a 7" single. The vinyl will include an exclusive B-side, "Mean Red Spider", which won't be available digitally. If you want "Mean Red Spider" on your iPod, you'll have to rip that shit yourself.